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Cybercrime encompasses any criminal act dealing with computers and networks. It includes crime conducted through the Internet. The Internet is basically the network of networks used across for communication and sharing of data. Cybercrime also known as the computer crime is the use of an instrument for illegal ends, such as committing fraud, trafficking in child pornography and intellectual property, stealing identities, or violating privacy. With the advancement of the Internet technologies like the 2G and 3G, the global village is effectively sharing and communicating vital data(s) across the network. However, there are some who are intentionally trying to track and extract the vital and confidential information illegally for their personal use or for the financial achievement and many more. The generic aim of this study was to profile the nature, content, type, frequency, intensity and extensity of job satisfaction for various cadres of cyber-crime professionals belonging to a major city of south India socio-demographic as well as in relation to associated personal variables. A subsidiary aim was also to determine the reliability and validity of the instrument being used for measurement of job satisfaction in the targeted population of police personnel. First, staff report there has been an escalation and acceleration of the quantity of the work cyber-crime units are expected to undertake. Second, the resourcing of cyber-crime units has not developed commensurate with the increasing demands. These three major themes emerged in both of the case study sites; however, there were some differences between the two sites that will be explored later. Following a discussion of these three categories of findings, we consider various suggestions made by staff for how to improve this situation. The paper concludes by highlighting the significance of the findings for the capabilities of police cyber-crime units and calls for further empirical research into police responses to cyber-crime.